...in a word, which go to make up what we know as character—just so long will that type of man be held in affectionate, reverential memory. They have in them all the elements of the heroic. As Carlyle wrote more than half a century ago, so now: Whom do you wish to resemble? Him you set on a high column. Who is to have a statue? means, whom shall we consecrate and set apart as one of our sac...